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The Headliner Silver Linings Playbook David O. Russell's follow-up to The Fighter deals, once again, with the question of male aggression, only this time the fights are all strictly amateur. (Still violent, though!) After discovering his wi...

Tim Duncan doesn't make a lot of mistakes around the basket. In the first half of Sunday's Game 1 between the Spurs and the Lakers, we were treated to the complete array of Duncan post moves. We think of the post as the place on the court where stren...

If boxing is sometimes stupid and always macho, there's no better example of the magnetism of stupid macho than Brandon Rios. He is boxing's early Ironclad, a slow-moving, indestructible and arguably ugly fighter who advances upon his opponents witho...

Happy Pi Day! Ang Lee's next project, Tyrant, an FX drama pilot, tentatively begins production this summer. Lee will direct and executive produce, which is great news unless you're "salty" Christopher Doyle, in whose opinion Life of Pi's cinematograp...

Perhaps the most remarkable thing about Floyd Mayweather's ascent to his position as king of the boxing box office is that he's done it without being an exciting fighter. Rather, he convinces fans to pay for his fights by distracting them from what w...

"Ninety percent of the time, being in the Eagles was a fucking blast," says a square-jawed, movie-star-handsome, 64-year-old Glenn Frey in the opening minutes of The History of the Eagles, a two-part, three-hour documentary airing tonight and Saturda...

How Hollywood bounced back from a miserable 2011. Plus: The top 10 of the year!

Don't blame the NHL lockout mess on Donald Fehr, who has always been a fighter.

1. Does anyone actually know which boxers are good, which are great, and which are fake? I'm not sure. The sport is so balkanized that there just doesn't seem to be a reliable way of determining who the best fighters really are. If you tried to make...

A brawl breaks out in Carson.

There's wasn't much overlap between Willie Pep's years of lucidity and the age of Google. But it would have warmed the heart of arguably the greatest defensive fighter in boxing history to know that the second suggestion offered when you type his nam...

1. Shinedown, "Unity" Nothing like a child walking through the city by herself taking pictures for her meatspace blog (a brick wall) with a camera plastered in sparkly stickers like a little Harriet the Spy. Jacksonville's Shinedown get orchestral...

In 2008, during the run-up to Gran Torino, Clint Eastwood said that the movie would be his last: "This will probably do it for me as far as acting is concerned ... You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don't want to be like a fighter wh...

The "Pakistani fighter" showed up, but not in a way anyone expected.

British, Pakistani, Muslim - how fans from Islamabad to London to New York process the champion boxer.

For those who relish watching the old put the young in their place, last week was spectacular like a sparkly, diamond-encrusted cane waving grandly over a pristine lawn. Picture the kids as a scheming John Ross Ewing, and the aged as a craggy but sti...